HIPAA Blog

[ Friday, October 26, 2007 ]

How many? Tom Smith of InfoWeek was at InterOp in NYC this past week and heard this:

Most startling stat I heard: One New York-based financial services firm losesone laptop per day and five smartphones per day in taxicabs, says John Pironti,chief information risk strategist for the consulting firm Getronics. A commonoutcome: The cab companies sell off the gear after 30 days. How that's for riskybusiness?

I'm guessing the smartphones are at least password-protected, and hope the laptops are at least that (they should be encrypted on the hard drive, too).